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I read that Georgia is pursuing a few portal WR quite hard. That can't be right?

Someone please clarify? Dane Key, CJ Daniels and Sturdivant? I was told that since we wouldn't give Singleton $1m+ , we were not using the portal at all. I was also told that Dane Key wasn't leaving Ole Miss without committing. Any help would be greatly appreciated. The portal has only been open for like a week but I assumed Kirby would buy half a dozen transfers by now. Like Lane.

NonDawg Cam Rising

Not returning to Utah, but will play somewhere this year. I assume at this point we should call him Doctor Rising, has to have a PHD at this point. Or hell maybe he could be a MD....he would have been in school 8 years if my math is right. He redshirted 2018 so by 2025, that would be his 8th year in school i believe. 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25....craziness

The Crowning Glory of the Portal

1- Mike Norvell loads FSU up with portal guys. He's taken 43 transfers over the past three years.
2- The 2023 team goes 12-0, and FSU fans think Norvell and his strategy have struck gold.
3- The FSU QB goes down with an injury. The replacements win pushover games but don't inspire much confidence. The ACC is not taken seriously as a conference, and FSU is kept out of the playoff.
4- Because their portal mercenaries doesn't give a damn about their teammates, their coaches, or their university, they bail on FSU ahead of the Orange Bowl.
5- Georgia, a team with far fewer portal guys, a team that is also disappointed by being left out of the playoff, shows up in Miami ready to play football and represent their university.
6- Georgia's lays down the biggest humiliating beatdown on FSU in the history of American bowl games.
7- FSU is a 2024 preseason pick for the Top 10. They go 2-10 as their program collapses under the weight of a mercenary culture and general apathy.
8- Georgia is back in the playoff with a chance to win its third national championship in four years.

Yes, let's get some portal guys that can help us. But Georgia fans should trust Kirby to know how the portal does and does not serve your football program.

2024 Awards/Honors

All-America Teams

American Football Coaches Association

1st Team
OG Tate Ratledge
LB Jalon Walker
S Malaki Starks

Walter Camp
2nd team
LB Jalon Walker
S Malaki Starks

CBS
1st team
S Malaki Starks
2nd team
LB Jalon Walker
P Brett Thorson

Sports Illustrated
1st team
LB Jalon Walker
P Brett Thorson
2nd team
OG Dylan Fairchild
S Malaki Starks

PFF
1st team
OG Dylan Fairchild
P Brett Thorson

The Athletic
2nd team
S Malaki Starks

AP
2nd team
OG Dylan Fairchild
S Malaki Starks
P Brett Thorson

3rd team
OG Tate Ratledge
LB Jalon Walker

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S Malaki Starks (AFCA, Walter Camp, CBS, Sports Illustrated, The Athletic, AP)
LB Jalon Walker (AFCA, Walter Camp, CBS, AP)
OG Dylan Fairchild (PFF, Sports Illustrated, AP)
P Brett Thorson (Sports Illustrated, PFF, AP)
OG Tate Ratledge (AFCA, AP)

Kirby is the Dan Mullen of Portal Recruiting.

Convince the functioning brain, non rose colored glasses venters we are wrong.

BTW..the functioning brain venters know KS is the absolute best FR recruiting HC in the nation. AND... KS is the absolute best at getting his team to play their best... more often than any other HC . THIS is why we are 11-2 & #2.

But if we sign 25 FR... maybe 3 will have significant impact as FR. Maybe 10-12 as a Soph. Probably 10-12 will portal out.

Why Ole Miss dominated us this year when we dominated us the year before.

NonDawg Prayers up for a friend and one of the SEC’s legendary sports writers….

If you’ve ever watched SEC Media Days, then you’ve seen or heard Bob Holt of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette.
Always on the front row, always asking questions in that same distinct manner he has.
Super guy. Nicest man you’ll ever meet this business.
Always has a great relationship with coaches.
He’s a little older than me.
Bob had an episode (believe it was a heart attack) leaving the press box at Missouri the other day and is in ICU.
Not looking good.

Team Update?

I don't know how much you guys are allowed to see the practices in preparation for the playoff, but as we move closer to the Sugar Bowl, could we get some updates from time to time about how the team is recovering with the time off? Maybe updates on who among our walking wounded we might be able to get back and what we can expect from them.

I thought Chris Fowler's call at the end of the SECCG ( " And every Dog...digs deep.") was Munson-worthy. And also true. We were one beat up football team in that game. So I'd love some reports on how we're progressing towards being at full strength during this three week recovery period.

Thanks for your hard work.

Looking at our QB play moving forward

Gunner is our QB for the playoffs and maybe for next year as well. The team loves him and will rally around him. You saw that in the SEC Championship. I’ve been told that Gunner is basically a more mobile version of Jake Fromm. So that is more of a game manager style QB and we have gotten away from that model since Fromm left. It’s going to be interesting to see how the staff navigates this QB situation. You can hope Gunner is your answer and roll with him next year or look in the portal for someone like Mendoza. The problem with going after Mendoza is he isn’t coming here to be a backup. If you sign him, what does that do to Gunner and the team while we are in this playoff run. Mendoza isn’t going to wait forever to make a decision. I do think the staff is high on Puglisi but he is probably a year away from being ready. Bringing in Mendoza would be a good bridge to Puglisi taking over. So many things to consider here and I’ll be curious to see how it plays out.

What’s up with the drones in NJ and NY?

Being reported today that Iran has a ship just off the US Atlantic coast and the drones are being sent from there.
Crazy if true and the US government is allowing this to happen.
Maybe I’m just a skeptical old man but the whole Biden to Trump transition has been going too smoothly for a man deemed a threat to democracy. Are we allowing a foreign enemy access to take out an elected president?
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